Another day; a tram ride down the Enlightenment Avenue Interesting Oto fact:
Oto’s grandfather, the one who was seen in previous pictures, spent all his adult life (until very recently) involved in building these tram cars. He rose from assembly line worker to the factory’s HR manager in later years. A real hard-working guy, he didn’t retire until almost the age of 80, and now spends most of his time doing all sorts of handiwork at his dacha for himself and the neighbourhood.

That’s not to say the trams, most of which are now decades old, are particularly good – sturdy, though!

View out the window.

A demolition site behind the fence.

A Soviet-era movie theatre turned shopping centre

Heavy ConstruKction

*to be continued*

Recently I’ve been haunting myself. The shocking thing is how easy it is to disappear if you really want to. I wonder for the millionth time how long it will be before anyone misses me.-SW/HCE

Me blatantly challenging my fear of railroads!
I like to play around on rails despite this fear; perhaps that’s why I have it in the first place. With dachas and commuting to them being such a big part of life, needless to say I spent a lot of time near rail lines like that.

Freight train – the business end

The back end

*to be continued*

Recently I’ve been haunting myself. The shocking thing is how easy it is to disappear if you really want to. I wonder for the millionth time how long it will be before anyone misses me.-SW/HCE